Maude Fulton
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Maude Fulton was a Broadway stage actress who later became a Hollywood screenwriter. She was the daughter of Titus Parker Fulton and Lulu Belle Couchman. She was stenographer, telegraph operator, and short story writer before becoming an actress. She first appeared on the stage at Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1904. As a young actress, Fulton was in the cast of Mam'zelle Champagne (1906), her Broadway debut.
Fulton was present in a performance of the play when Harry K. Thaw
murdered architect Stanford White
over the affections of Evelyn Nesbit
. She wrote and acted in the 1917 play The Brat, her greatest personal success, which was later made into a 1919 silent picture starring Alla Nazimova
and then remade as an early talkie in 1930. During the silent era, Fulton wrote the intertitle
s for many a silent picture e.g. Lady Windermere's Fan
(1925) with Ronald Colman
and Don Juan
(1926) with John Barrymore
. She continued writing for films in Hollywood into the 1930s.
Fulton was married and divorced to Robert Ober. There were no children.
Fulton was present in a performance of the play when Harry K. Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Harry Kendall Thaw was the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw. He is best known for murdering the architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906 in a jealous rage.- Early life:...
murdered architect Stanford White
Stanford White
Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...
over the affections of Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry Kendall Thaw.-Early life:...
. She wrote and acted in the 1917 play The Brat, her greatest personal success, which was later made into a 1919 silent picture starring Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova , was a Russian American film and theatre actress, a screenwriter and film producer. She is perhaps best known as simply Nazimova, but also went under the name Alia Nasimoff.-Early life:...
and then remade as an early talkie in 1930. During the silent era, Fulton wrote the intertitle
Intertitle
In motion pictures, an intertitle is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action, at various points, generally to convey character dialogue, or descriptive narrative material related to, but not necessarily covered by, the material photographed.Intertitles...
s for many a silent picture e.g. Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 film)
Lady Windermere's Fan is a 1925 American silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It is based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Lady Windermere's Fan which was first played in America that year by Julia Arthur as Lady Windermere and Maurice Barrymore as Lord Darlington.- Cast :*Ronald Colman as Lord...
(1925) with Ronald Colman
Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...
and Don Juan
Don Juan (1926 film)
Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue...
(1926) with John Barrymore
John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
. She continued writing for films in Hollywood into the 1930s.
Fulton was married and divorced to Robert Ober. There were no children.